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Chapter 130
🕑 Added 2024-11-12 08:11:12 +0000 UTCIt was your hand. You had just reached this place with D.A.I.S.Y.'s help and saw the guy harassing this girl.
"Who the hell?" The guy looks back and then up at your face.
"I said, let her go," you say, exerting force on his shoulder, making him wince in pain.
"Let go of me!" The girl tries to yank her hand free and miraculously it passes straight through his hand. Now that she is free, she hurriedly dashes away without looking back.
"Hey, no wait!" The guy yells, but you grip him tightly, preventing him from moving.
"What is your problem, dude?" He says angrily as he tries to strike you with his elbow, but you dodge and let go of his shoulder.
"I'll make you pay for getting in my way," he says, punching towards your face.
Instead of engaging, you push him back with a single finger to his chest.
ZAP!
You pass a non-lethal amount of electricity into his body and use a forcefield construct behind his leg, causing him to trip and fall on his back.
"If you go near her again, you'll experience ten times more pain," you say, narrowing your eyes at him as he lies paralyzed on the ground. You always hated bullies like him.
You leave him and go after the girl. Professor Xavier and the others must be arriving soon; you had reached here in advance, seeing the girl being bullied through D.A.I.S.Y.'s surveillance.
With D.A.I.S.Y.'s help, you intercept the girl, who is blindly rushing forward with her eyes closed in panic, clutching a Star of David necklace.
"Ouch!" She crashes into your arms, and you grab her to prevent her from falling.
She strains her neck to look up at you because of her small height.
"You're the guy from before. Why can't everyone just, like, leave me alone?" She tries to get away from you.
"Kitty, will you hear me out?" You ask, tapping your neck to deactivate your Anti-Cognitive Mask.
"Lucas Watson?" She exclaims, covering her mouth in disbelief as she looks up at you. "Are you really him? But like, your face was different just now!" She looks at you skeptically.
"It's a nifty piece of technology that lets me move freely without being recognized in public places. But that's not important right now. You are. Kitty, I'm here because of your unique powers, the power of phasing," you say with a shine in your eyes.
Yes, the girl in front of you, standing at 5 feet tall, is none other than Katherine Pryde.
In the comics and movies of your previous world, she was a powerful mutant known by many aliases like Ariel, Sprite, Shadowcat, and Shadowkat.
Her ability is a type of phasing, passing through solid objects harmlessly. She goes on to become an integral part of the X-Men in the future. Even becoming the headmistress of the Xavier School.
"Powers? Sorry, like you made a mistake. I-I'm just a normal girl," Kitty says with a scared look, backing away.
You take her hand in yours and activate your Angelic Aura to calm her down. "Kitty, we both know that you're not just a normal girl. You're special, and that's why I'm here, to help you," you say with a comforting smile.
Kitty looks up at you, calming down a little. "H-How will you help me?" She asks hesitantly.
"Let's sit down somewhere first," you say, taking her to an empty classroom that D.A.I.S.Y. had found for you, still holding her hand.
You sit on a desk, and Kitty sits beside you on another. "Now, first, can you start by telling me what you know about your powers?" You ask, wanting to talk to her more until the Professor arrives.
"I-I don't know. Yesterday my head was hurting like crazy all day. I finished my homework and went to bed. I remember vividly dreaming about like flying above the city freely, but suddenly I started falling, and just as I was about to hit the ground, I like woke up in our... basement," Kitty says, looking down with her hands shaking.
You put your hands on hers in comfort, her shaking stops as she continues, "I-I was so scared. I had screamed in panic. Mommy and Daddy came and chalked it up to sleepwalking, but like I could see my bedsheet and pillow on the basement's ceiling. They were stuck there. I-I had like just passed through my bed and floor and fallen into the basement! I-I am some kind of freak!" Kitty says with a pained look.
"You're not a freak. You're just special, just like me," you say as you bring out a flame in your hands.
"H-how? Is this like some kind of trick?" Kitty asks, wonder in her eyes as she looks at the ball of fire in your hand.
"No, Kitty. Just like you, I have unique powers of my own," you say with a smile, closing your palm to make the fire vanish.
"B-but how did I get these powers then? Am I like an alien?" She asks with wide eyes.
"No, Kitty, you're not an alien," you chuckle. "Nor am I. We are still humans, just some humans contain an X-gene in their DNA. You can think of it as a key to unlocking unique powers. It has been present in our bodies through years of mutation and evolution. Once it unlocks, you're granted a power of your own. You can consider it a unique gift," you explain, giving her a crash-course on mutants.
"So is it really a gift?" Kitty asks, looking at her hands in wonder.
"Yes, Kitty, it definitely is," you say as you try to touch her hands, but they pass through as if nothing is there, making you both smile in amusement.
"So like, how did you find out about me? And why are you here? Don't you have like a huge company to run?" Kitty asks, raising an eyebrow.
"There is a school, Kitty. A school for gifted individuals like yourself," you say with a smile, mentally swearing at the Professor for taking so long to arrive.
